Topic #1:
Sex Education and Birth Control
"How do Different Countries and Different Religious Groups Address the Issue of Family Planning and Birth Control?"
1. Predominantly Catholic and Islamic limit the availability and usage of birth control
2. In many countries family planning is frowned upon.
3. Sex education, even in first world countries like the US, have limited and sometime stimatized sex education, which leads to the spreading of disease and unwanted or potentially harmful pregnancies.
1.Is sex education more comprehencive or accessible in non-religious countries?
2. Is birth effective birth control available?
3. Who has the responsibility to educate the youth about sex?
Locally, this topic is extremely rellevent to me, because so many people in my community are getting pregnant in high school, and so many people i know are realizing how poor the sex and health education system is here by makeing poor sexual judgements.
Globally, there are epidemics related to sexual health, such as AIDS, other STDs, unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse, female circumsission, and various other physically and emotionally harming issues. Many people don't understand the role sex plays in emotional stability and self esteem. Also, many people don't understand how important it is to family plan, and use prtection.
Many ideas. I think making a doccumantary film about this subject would be a very effective way to get this information across, but i have hopes, now, to take trips to other areas of the world to discuss this issue. I have a friend who travels all throughout South and Central America and the United States and teaches women about their lives, their power, and their self esteem. Perhaps contacting her and asking for information from her would bennifit my project!
African AIDS numbers are higher for sevral reasons, not safe to just asume there is a total lack of sex education. They are siseptible to 2 strains of the AIDS virus. Also blood to blood transmissions, not just through intercourse, lack of status for females (including a propensity for rape and prostitution, coupled with a lack of available controceptives.)
New information about about African sex laws, including laws against sodomy, and restrictive/prohibative laws on prostitution in South Africa. Excellent resourse: Refdesk.com/paper. Newspaper resources from around the world. Checked the updates on the pages, and looked up contact info in ensure it was a lagitimate resourse, and it totally checked out! i am looking forward to using more of the resouces from this page. I bookmarked several pages through diigo to keep the info, including the new reference refdesk.com. Also shared it on the 21st century global leadership diigo page.
Today I organized my Diigo page and added more sites to it. I found new resources, and went through the ones I have already tagged so I can begin to map out how I want to organize my presentation and what areas I will include. It's beginning to look like statistics from other countries will be a little more difficult to obtain, so maybe statisitics won't be as big of a part of my presentation as i had originally thought.
For the next three classes i am going to start piecing together what i want my presentation to look like. Perhaps i will use common craft? Or maybe several different types of information relaying. i'm not sure yet. but over the next three classes i will compile my sources and information and use what i have compiled to make a transcript-like page, where my information is coherently laid out in an understandible way.
There is general info that can be gained from all the sources i have taged in Diigo. Specifically, i have tagged some articles about emergency controceptives and how prevelent they are in courntries like India. This information will be helpful when i talk about target audiences for contoceptive deivces, as this website clearly has a target audience.i will use much of the information it the articles i have gathered from the database to infer how countries are addressing issues like teen pregnancy and sex education as a whole. As i have not fully designed the execution of my project, i do not feel comfortable laying out what quotes i will use from the articles, but there are many options. I also plan on interviewing a few people close to me, and using what they say to me as information for my project.
Script:
What is sex education?
Is it all that stuff you learn in like 5th grade about how babies are made, and they show you the classic picture of the
Sperm swimming for the egg that makes you wonder why the sperm is smiling and if your parents actually had to do that to make you….
Or is it something more? In the twenty-first century,
Does sex education mean going beyond baby-making
And onto issues like STDs: HIV/AIDS, HPV, herpes, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, Bacterial Vaginosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, syphilis, and trichomoniasis…
Do we need to increase knowledge about these issues?
The rising percent of people with STDs demonstrates that YES we DO!
Sex used to be simpler. People got married, had kids, and that was the end of that.
But with a skyrocketing divorce rate, and increased sexual media, fewer and fewer people are living their lives with just one partner.
people are also becoming sexually active at increasingly younger ages.
One of the most feared STDs is AIDS.
As of 2007, an estimated +460,000 people were living with AIDS in the US according to AVERT.org
The global population of people living with aids has been on a steady rise since the late eighties, skyrocketing through the nineties, and barely started slowing it’s increase in the 2000s
Also according to avert.org, there has been nearly a 90% increase in reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis, and a 41% increase in reported cases of Chlamydia in the US since 2001
The CDC published a study in March 2008 stating that no less that 1 in 4 US teen girls ages 14-19 has an STD
If that is the case, then clearly something isn’t working. I mean, really.
Abstinence only sex education in the US teaches morality in waiting to have sex.
But whether it’s moral or not is beyond the issue.
Teenagers are having sex.They just don’t have the information they need to be safe about it.
UNICEF’s most accurate data states that the US has teen birthrate of over 52 teen births to every thousand, a little over 5%
Sara Milic, a German exchange student at the International School of the Americas, recounts her sexual education in Germany:
In her school, the education started in third and fifth grade, she says, with very basic information.
In sixth, her class went with their teacher to purchase condoms, and to the gynecologist, where they we taught how to properly apply a condom.
It was the expectation, says Sara, that each student remember at least ten different ways of birth control.
Incidentally, Germany has a birthrate of merely 12 teen births to every thousand. That’s 1.2%
The religiously conservative country, Iran, offers comprehensive sex education to people engaged to be married, according to a New York Times article entitled “Modeling the Ideal Islamic Citizen”.They offer classes on child prevention and birth control, as well as ones on STDs, and ones that educate women on their sexual rights.
I live in Texas, and when I was given “high school level sex education”,
I had to get a signed permission slip from my parents for me to even take to week long course.
I learned about a few methods of birth control that were vaguely explained, watched no less than three videos on abstinence, and had to look at a few old rubber models of developing babies.
So why is the US so far behind?
Perhaps it’s because we, the teenagers of the united states, have lost our morality, perhaps it’s because of the raging teenage hormones…
but whatever is to blame, I think maybe it’s time to step it up a bit, recognize that teens are having sex, and teach us how to be smart about it.
Sex Education and Birth Control
"How do Different Countries and Different Religious Groups Address the Issue of Family Planning and Birth Control?"
2. In many countries family planning is frowned upon.
3. Sex education, even in first world countries like the US, have limited and sometime stimatized sex education, which leads to the spreading of disease and unwanted or potentially harmful pregnancies.
2. Is birth effective birth control available?
3. Who has the responsibility to educate the youth about sex?
African AIDS numbers are higher for sevral reasons, not safe to just asume there is a total lack of sex education. They are siseptible to 2 strains of the AIDS virus. Also blood to blood transmissions, not just through intercourse, lack of status for females (including a propensity for rape and prostitution, coupled with a lack of available controceptives.)
New information about about African sex laws, including laws against sodomy, and restrictive/prohibative laws on prostitution in South Africa. Excellent resourse: Refdesk.com/paper. Newspaper resources from around the world. Checked the updates on the pages, and looked up contact info in ensure it was a lagitimate resourse, and it totally checked out! i am looking forward to using more of the resouces from this page. I bookmarked several pages through diigo to keep the info, including the new reference refdesk.com. Also shared it on the 21st century global leadership diigo page.
Today I organized my Diigo page and added more sites to it. I found new resources, and went through the ones I have already tagged so I can begin to map out how I want to organize my presentation and what areas I will include. It's beginning to look like statistics from other countries will be a little more difficult to obtain, so maybe statisitics won't be as big of a part of my presentation as i had originally thought.
For the next three classes i am going to start piecing together what i want my presentation to look like. Perhaps i will use common craft? Or maybe several different types of information relaying. i'm not sure yet. but over the next three classes i will compile my sources and information and use what i have compiled to make a transcript-like page, where my information is coherently laid out in an understandible way.
There is general info that can be gained from all the sources i have taged in Diigo. Specifically, i have tagged some articles about emergency controceptives and how prevelent they are in courntries like India. This information will be helpful when i talk about target audiences for contoceptive deivces, as this website clearly has a target audience.i will use much of the information it the articles i have gathered from the database to infer how countries are addressing issues like teen pregnancy and sex education as a whole. As i have not fully designed the execution of my project, i do not feel comfortable laying out what quotes i will use from the articles, but there are many options. I also plan on interviewing a few people close to me, and using what they say to me as information for my project.
Script:
What is sex education?
Is it all that stuff you learn in like 5th grade about how babies are made, and they show you the classic picture of the
Sperm swimming for the egg that makes you wonder why the sperm is smiling and if your parents actually had to do that to make you….
Or is it something more? In the twenty-first century,
Does sex education mean going beyond baby-making
And onto issues like STDs: HIV/AIDS, HPV, herpes, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, Bacterial Vaginosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, syphilis, and trichomoniasis…
Do we need to increase knowledge about these issues?
The rising percent of people with STDs demonstrates that YES we DO!
Sex used to be simpler. People got married, had kids, and that was the end of that.
But with a skyrocketing divorce rate, and increased sexual media, fewer and fewer people are living their lives with just one partner.
people are also becoming sexually active at increasingly younger ages.
One of the most feared STDs is AIDS.
As of 2007, an estimated +460,000 people were living with AIDS in the US according to AVERT.org
The global population of people living with aids has been on a steady rise since the late eighties, skyrocketing through the nineties, and barely started slowing it’s increase in the 2000s
Also according to avert.org, there has been nearly a 90% increase in reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis, and a 41% increase in reported cases of Chlamydia in the US since 2001
The CDC published a study in March 2008 stating that no less that 1 in 4 US teen girls ages 14-19 has an STD
If that is the case, then clearly something isn’t working. I mean, really.
Abstinence only sex education in the US teaches morality in waiting to have sex.
But whether it’s moral or not is beyond the issue.
Teenagers are having sex. They just don’t have the information they need to be safe about it.
UNICEF’s most accurate data states that the US has teen birthrate of over 52 teen births to every thousand, a little over 5%
Sara Milic, a German exchange student at the International School of the Americas, recounts her sexual education in Germany:
In her school, the education started in third and fifth grade, she says, with very basic information.
In sixth, her class went with their teacher to purchase condoms, and to the gynecologist, where they we taught how to properly apply a condom.
It was the expectation, says Sara, that each student remember at least ten different ways of birth control.
Incidentally, Germany has a birthrate of merely 12 teen births to every thousand. That’s 1.2%
The religiously conservative country, Iran, offers comprehensive sex education to people engaged to be married, according to a New York Times article entitled “Modeling the Ideal Islamic Citizen”. They offer classes on child prevention and birth control, as well as ones on STDs, and ones that educate women on their sexual rights.
I live in Texas, and when I was given “high school level sex education”,
I had to get a signed permission slip from my parents for me to even take to week long course.
I learned about a few methods of birth control that were vaguely explained, watched no less than three videos on abstinence, and had to look at a few old rubber models of developing babies.
So why is the US so far behind?
Perhaps it’s because we, the teenagers of the united states, have lost our morality, perhaps it’s because of the raging teenage hormones…
but whatever is to blame, I think maybe it’s time to step it up a bit, recognize that teens are having sex, and teach us how to be smart about it.